Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

Search Engine Roundtable Stories:

Google’s Disavow Link Tool: Their Best Spam Reporting Tool Yet
It is finally official, as promised Google launched a disavow link tool yesterday afternoon. It was officially launched during the lunch with Matt Cutts at PubCon Vegas.

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Ex-Googler: No More Than Two Commercial Keywords & More
Former Googler, Andre Weyher, who worked in the Google Search Quality team for two years…

Google Will Never Be Spam Free
I covered this at Search Engine Land under the title Google’s Matt Cutts On “Will Search Spam Go On Forever” but I thought it was worth highlighting here as well…

The Google -950 Penalty Is Back?
Google’s “minus 950” penalty comes up every now and then and now it is coming up again at the WebmasterWorld forums.

The thread goes into how a few webmasters are claiming around the time of the Google EMD update they got hit by a -950 penalty…
Live: Lunch With Matt Cutts
Matt Cutts is here at PubCon and he is literally eating lunch. We will be covering the session live now.
Jim Boykin Buys WebmasterWorld
I am live at PubCon and there is an “historic” announcement going to be made here at the event as part of the “Tribute To WebmasterWorld.”

Update: Jim Boykin has bought WebmasterWorld. Here is Jim’s release and here is the forum thread at WebmasterWorld…
Google’s Sand Mandala By Buddhist Monks
Googlers were posting this photo of two buddhist monks working on a sand mandala at the GooglePlex yesterday. Supposedly, it will take all week to complete and when they are done, they will destroy i

Other Great Search Forum Threads:

Election Effect, WebmasterWorld
Google books partner program, WebmasterWorld
Google ADDING Second Search Term to SERPs, WebmasterWorld
Google’s treatment of their own websites: Do as I say, not as I do, WebmasterWorld
Microsoft Announces New Surface Details, WebmasterWorld